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WCDT 4176-4180 (13th - 17th, January 2020)
Aenno:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 16 Jan 2020, 11:22 ---The idea of "service positions" jarred loose that May could do things like call center work from a server farm, if the terms of her parole permit it. May would be a lousy customer service rep, but it's not up to the taxpayers to make up for that.
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I believe it would qualify as digital work, which is directly and expressively forbidden for her by probation rules.
Perfectly Reasonable:
There is also the curious case of Pintsize, who after damaging his motherboard with cake batter ended up with a military prototype chassis by mistake.
Aenno:
--- Quote from: Perfectly Reasonable on 16 Jan 2020, 11:46 ---There is also the curious case of Pintsize, who after damaging his motherboard with cake batter ended up with a military prototype chassis by mistake.
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It was before Singularity and AI Equal Rights amendment.
cybersmurf:
--- Quote from: JoeCovenant on 16 Jan 2020, 05:22 ---
Sorry... all I can read into the posts above is... "How dare May want to have a body!"
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I'm torn between "there's a valid point", and "someone's the Devil's Advocate".
I've been somewhat absent from these forums lately, and I just skimmed through those longer posts, so please forgive me if I repeat something.
May's parole conditions are that she gets a normal job. Fine. She chose to be embodied, which she wasn't before. Now, what's the authorities to do? Just give her a body for free? Make her repay?
As for the just give her a free one - that's what happened. But with the state it is in, it's probably bound to fail,making her lose her job and not getting another, which will fail her parole conditions.
Giving her a body with a loan attached? Probably gonna fail payment at some point, failing parole.
Give her a body she has to return at the end of the parole? Maybe.
As for May being a convicted felon - yes. She's a criminal, who has not yet served her sentence in full. What she was caught for, and what she intended to do are two different things. She got caught and convicted for theft and/or money laundering IIRC, and that's what's used to set her parole. Wanting to be a fighter jet is something different. The way I understand it, she didn't want to do any actual harm, but be perceived a big powerful thing. Acquiring the jet and actually getting loaded in is one thing, but I don't think she would have been able to keep it running. Fly around a bit, and get rid of it again in exchange for a humanoid body.
To me, May is not a dangerous character, but the desire to become a fighter jet was highly romanticised on her part, and she wouldn't have done anything bad IMHO.
Does she want to be perceived as the tough guy? Yes. But down the road she's a good kid. And with her being the way she is, and what she's been through, I can see why she has become the sarcastic and crude person she is - up to now she's been antagonised all the way, except by Dale. Or at least it feels that way.
Do I think there is a chance May might have become a bad person, and a dangerous criminal? Yes, but that's a long shot. Even longer than her becoming a valued member of society. She'll always be kind of a weirdo.
Aenno:
Well, about "she didn't want to do any harm, she just is a thief", I'd like to mention that stealing is bad. She isn't really violent, that's true. Still, stealing is, generally, something that makes a person quite not a very good person, and doing it for buying military-grade weapons (from the black market, I suppose - it's not like this kind of stuff can be bought on open market, especially when you're AI without good explanation where do you have this money) makes her dangerous.
Still, QC AIs tend to underestimate harm they're doing/saying about. I'm not saying about Pintsize. Imagine a person with even mild arachnophobia meeting Gordon (and simple skimming for Wiki would tell AI it's about 5% of human population, so every 20th customer would be the one). Station actually declaring a readiness to make orbital bombardment to hit Corpse Witch. On populated city. Even if it's jokes, such jokes would hurt human-AI integration far worse then some AIs trying to be helpful and joining the military, because, well, Station can bombard a city.
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